Patients who are blind or have low vision have difficulty distinguishing a flat membrane button or similar control unless it is tactilely discernible from the surrounding surface and any...
Search Results "Blindness"
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M307 Operable Parts
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Disability Savvy Quiz
When offering assistance to a person who is blind, which of the following are false? Speak directly facing the person. Your voice will orient the person....
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V. PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
children with disabilities are not denied admission to childcare simply because they have a disability; post-secondary schools provide testing accommodations for people who are blind...
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Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities
Ethics Matters: A publication of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities © Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 2009....
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Lobbying & Grass Roots Activities
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), for example, was outspoken in its reservations about the ADA....
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V. ENSURING EQUAL ACCESS TO CUSTOMERS WITH DISABILITIES
cleaning windshields; opening doors; assistance in locating, retrieving, and carrying merchandise; reading product labels and prices and providing wayfinding assistance to customers who are blind...
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3. Voluntary Compliance
The Department believes that access to movie theaters for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, should not depend upon where they live.[23] The Department...
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EXHIBIT E QUIKTRIP POLICY REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Service animals assist people with disabilities in many different ways, such as: Guiding people who are blind or have low vision and retrieving dropped objects for them;...
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Visual Acuity
That’s pretty good vision, but you’re legally blind if that’s the best you can do. There are a lot of animals that would die to have 20/200 vision....
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Equipment and furniture.
The Department also believes that when federal guidance for accessibility exists for equipment required to be accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision, entities should...
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6. Processes for Complying with the ADA
The information must be accessible to the public, including people who have disabilities that affect communication, such as blindness, low vision, deafness, and hearing loss....
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
in favor of this language, but noted that there are occasions when service animals are provoked to disruptive or aggressive behavior by agitators or troublemakers, as in the case of a blind...
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Auxiliary aids and services (Section-by-Section Analysis)
While retrieving an item from a shelf might be an "auxiliary aid or service" for a blind person who could not locate the item without assistance, it might be a method of providing program...
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Suleiman Alibhai, O.D., Low Vision Services, PLC.
Initially, I thought about putting up slides of diseases to show you blind spots, and the narrow tunnel view. But you know, it’s really not like that....
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Theatre Access NYC
Those who are hard of hearing or deaf, have low vision or are blind, who cannot climb stairs or who require aisle seating or wheelchair locations, who are on the autism spectrum or have...
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Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Professional
Background Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires Federal agencies to make electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessible to users with disabilities, including: Blindness...
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Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA)
Two other unique programs serve consumers with visual impairments: the Business Enterprise Program and Georgia Industries for the Blind....
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Independent Resources, Inc. (IRI) - Wilmington, Dover, Seaford, DE
further to provide such other services to the community as: Sensitivity Training, Community Education and Outreach, Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Computer Training for the Blind...
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Specialized Customer Premises Equipment (Section-by-Section Analysis)
For example, even though it may seem "counter-productive," a person who is blind may need to communicate with a TTY user directly, without going through a relay service, and would need auditory...
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Function Keys
The Board specified colors for standard function keys in the proposed rule and sought comment on the appropriateness of this specification, particularly for people who are color blind (Question...
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‘‘Auxiliary aids and services.’’
While retrieving an item from a shelf might be an ‘‘auxiliary aid or service’’ for a blind person who could not locate the item without assistance, it might be a method of providing program...
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4. Availability of Movies with Captioning and Audio Description
That said, movie studios appear committed to making their movies accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing or blind or have low vision, and the Department commends their...
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Study limitations
to Table 1 for Other type of self-reported disability in our sample b Other in Laplante et al (2010) include diabetes, heart trouble, lung or respiratory problems, high blood pressure, blindness...
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"Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) Services'' (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department recognizes that in these and other situations, such as where communication is needed for persons who are deaf-blind, it may be necessary to summon an in-person interpreter...
